No extra hardware required with IDScan.net’s secure verification app for iPhone
Merchants can now use IDScan.net’s VeriScan mobile iOS app to accept mobile IDs in Apple Wallet and other standards-compliant mobile…
Age Assurance
Biometric age assurance is any method of confirming a claim about the age of an individual by measuring their physical characteristics or actions. It includes age verification, which compares face biometrics from a reference image on an identity document to a facial photo or selfie, and age estimation, which analyzes the facial features in a photo to estimate a person’s age, typically within a given range. It also includes other methods that utilize voice or gesture.
Age verification for online booze sales too expensive, say Aussie retailers
As Australia continues its transition toward digital ID, the country’s liquor lobby is raising concerns about how much it will…
Veratad adds reusable ID feature to age and identity verification platform
KYC, AML and age verification provider Veratad has launched a reusable identity feature created to complement the company’s existing verification…
Leash tightens about the necks of social media titans in the US
Nothing of substance resulted from yesterday’s U.S. Senate scolding of five social media CEOs. Intangible but important was the obvious…
Privately, ACCS, Idiap and AVPA join forces to protect age estimation from generative AI
Generative AI services are emerging that can potentially be used to thwart online facial age estimation systems, just as those…
Ambiguous US age verification legislation sets up legal challenges
Putting walls around adult or should-be-adult content online is enticing to U.S. culture warriors, but it’s not easy to do….
Age verification integrations span from brick-and-mortar retail to bikeshare apps
Fujitsu facial scanners will be used to perform age verification in UK supermarkets, despite the company’s involvement in a major…
UK considers digital identity for age verification in booze sales
A statement from the Minister of State for Crime, Policing and Fire says the UK government has launched a consultation…
Age verification is a prickly unknown for at least one US state
A new U.S. state age-verification law will take effect in March 1 and the government still does not have rules…
Age verification laws in the UK and US reassessed
While lawmakers around the world remind us to think of the children, digital identity watchdogs and citizen groups say restrictive…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection